From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-17 03:55:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.worldonline.nl!newsclients!news.worldonline.nl!not-for-mail From: info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:23:13 GMT Organization: Go wash your mouth. Message-ID: <3b7ceef1.688682654@news.worldonline.nl> References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> <9kp9n7$ivm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B73337F.862F8D93@home.com> <9lb7hu$72h$1@norfair.nerim.net> <3B7C6977.3648F061@home.com> <3B7CE3E1.6F80@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vp210-128.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 998045511 17742 195.241.210.128 (17 Aug 2001 10:51:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@worldonline.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2001 10:51:51 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12040 comp.lang.c:74969 comp.lang.c++:83390 Date: 2001-08-17T10:51:51+00:00 List-Id: pete wrote: > "The standard library is not part of the C language proper, > but an environment that supports standard C will provide > the function declarations and type and macro definitions > of this library." > > K&R2 appendix B That's probably a leftover from the days of K&R 1, when it was true. In ISO C, the Standard describes both the grammar and the library, and both are part of the language. Richard